I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.